Specialist, Maintenance Planning & Execution (EMEA)

Ball Corporation; Waterford; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ball Corporation in Waterford, Ireland is seeking an experienced Maintenance Planning Lead to standardise maintenance processes across EMEA. You will partner with plant engineering, regional teams and global BOE to improve reliability, cost control and compliance.

You’ll lead annual and weekly maintenance plans, support CMMS/SFOL standardisation, and drive RCA and post-event reviews. Travel requirements include regular site visits across the region.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in process engineering, maintenance and spare-parts management, preferably in can making.
• Experience with maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS/SFOL, PM compliance and maintenance-event execution.
• University degree in Engineering-related discipline or NVQ Level 6 is preferred.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Experience in industrial process analysis, continuous improvement and RCA.
• Strong data-analysis and stakeholder-management skills; able to coach plant users.
• Willingness to travel - typically one week of travel per month, with occasional 2–3 weeks.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance planning and execution standardisation across EMEA, including annual plans and weekly planning routines.
• Support BOE Maintenance deployment by maintaining regional progress visibility and coaching sites.
• Standardise and improve CMMS/SFOL use and ensure applicability, translation, release and scheduling.
• Prepare and update the monthly regional maintenance scorecard and monitor PM compliance.
• Coordinate breakdown review and RCA support with clear actions and learnings.
• Promote best maintenance practices and lean tools across the region.
• Support regional reliability and asset initiatives with tracking and improvement activity.
• Provide practical plant support through site visits and management summaries.
• Apply technical criteria and engineering studies to support equipment inspection and decisions.
• Reduce spare-parts inventory through technical analysis and supplier information.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Process engineering

Spare-parts management

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Travel willingness

Education

University degree in Engineering-related discipline or NVQ Level 6

Tools

CMMS/SFOL

Job description

At Ball, integrity and trust are the foundation of who we are. Guided by our core values —\"We Care. We Work. We Win.\"— we create a culture where every voice matters and every idea drives progress.

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Create a new future. Apply Today.

Your Opportunity To Make An Impact

At Ball, every role contributes to something bigger. Learn how this opportunity will allow you to grow your career while making a lasting impact on our business, our communities, and our planet:

This role develops, deploys and sustains maintenance planning and execution standards across EMEA plants. It supports BOE Maintenance deployment, CMMS/SFOL standardisation, Global Maintenance Standards rollout, PM compliance reporting, RCA quality, maintenance-event planning and regional improvement initiatives. The role works closely with plant engineering teams, regional maintenance leadership, global maintenance/BOE teams and system support to improve maintenance discipline, equipment reliability, compliance, cost control and shared learning across the region.

How You'll Make a Difference

The responsibilities below represent more than daily tasks. They are opportunities to make a difference, collaborate with talented colleagues, and contribute to meaningful outcomes:

• Lead maintenance planning and execution standardisation across EMEA, including annual plans, weekly planning routines and supporting major maintenance-event preparation from 12 weeks out through post-event review.


• Support BOE Maintenance deployment by maintaining regional progress visibility, reviewing plant evidence, coaching sites on templates and criteria, and supporting assessment readiness.


• Standardise and improve CMMS/SFOL use for procedures, orders, requests, interventions, reporting and traceability, including Global Maintenance Standards applicability, translation, release and scheduling.


• Prepare and update the monthly regional maintenance scorecard, validate plant commentary, monitor PM compliance, identify data-quality gaps and track corrective actions for focus plants.


• Coordinate breakdown review and RCA support, ensuring problem statements, root-cause logic, corrective actions, shared learning and implications for standards, spares, procedures or training are followed through.


• Promote best maintenance practices, lean tools, engineered solutions and consistent post-maintenance reviews to build and sustain a world-class maintenance programme.


• Support regional reliability and asset initiatives, including wellness-event tracking, rebuild and overhaul visibility, equipment-performance monitoring and targeted improvement activity.


• Provide practical plant support through check-ins, site visits, management summaries, tracker updates, action logs and clear escalation of unresolved risks.


• Apply technical criteria, history, supplier information, engineering studies and acquired knowledge to support equipment inspection, spare-parts optimisation and maintenance improvement decisions.


• Reduce spare-parts inventory through technical analysis while preventing stockouts during mechanical equipment interventions, using equipment history, supplier information, engineering studies, inspection findings and acquired knowledge to optimise spare-parts strategy and maintenance decisions.


• Provide cross-functional support across the regional maintenance team, maintaining continuity of key workstreams, meetings, stakeholder follow-up, reporting and escalation during team members’ holidays, travel or other planned absences.

What Helps You Thrive In This Role

We're looking for curious minds, collaborative spirits, and motivated professionals ready to make an impact. Here are the skills and experiences that will help you succeed in this role:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in process engineering, maintenance, process optimisation and spare-parts management preferrably from can making industry.


• Practical experience with maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS/SFOL, PM compliance, equipment inspection and maintenance-event execution.


• A university degree in Engineering-related discipline or NVQ Level 6 - preferred


• Fluent written and spoken English


• Experience in industrial process analysis, continuous improvement, structured problem solving and RCA.


• Strong data-analysis, stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to coach plant users, produce concise management summaries, identify risks and drive action closure across multiple sites.


• Willingness to travel - typically one week of travel per month, although there may be periods requiring travel 2-3 times per month.

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

Job Grade: Global Grade 10